[nagdu] Puppy raising Question

[Lyn Gwizdak]

Hi Diana,
I've brought Landn into an intensive care unit twice with no problem. 
Matter of fact, I got workers there coming for a bit of pet therapy instead! 
Landon is a certified Therapy Dog and I let him visit with the nurses there 
and they enjoyed the interlude with Landon.   These folks deal with alot of 
stress due to the nature of their jobs in the ICU.  The patients I visited 
enjoyed seeing Landon as well - these wer friends of mine who wwere in ICU I 
was visiting.  Landon and I have spent alot of time on mental health units 
as well doing pet therapy.

When I talked to puppy raisers, they have told me that if they encounter a 
person in a business who didn't want the puppies there and they just went 
elsewhere.  At work, who knows.  Hope the person with the puppy tried to 
explain to the boss about what the dog will be doing.

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diana Dawne" <drdawne at samobile.net>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Puppy raising Question


> Yes this is my understanding that the law protects equally a puppy in 
> training as well as a qualified service dog in the state of California. So 
> if this raiser had been in California she could just thumb her nose at her 
> boss but things seem to be quite different on the east coast.
>
> I attempted to listen to the information on the nagdu website relating to 
> hospitals but got the message that the information could not be found. 
> When I attended schools in the east I was very amazed to hear instructors 
> suggest maybe it wasn't such a good idea to take a dog into intensive care 
> in a hospital.  As a doctor I have been doing so for years and wondered 
> about this backward thinking.  I have also heard about difficulties people 
> have had over being able to relieve their dogs.  Of course I have always 
> attended to that problem, but I have never encountered unwillingness to 
> assist.  I have always encountered nothing but wonderful acceptance of my 
> dogs in a hospital setting and now that I live in the Midwest I don't 
> expect that to change.
>
> Bright Blessings,
>
> Diana & that Very Magical and Enchanting guide dog Fuller Brush
>
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